BILL ANALYSIS Ó
AB 2041
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Date of Hearing: May 2, 2012
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
Felipe Fuentes, Chair
AB 2041 (Swanson) - As Introduced: February 23, 2012
Policy Committee: Business and
Professions Vote: 9 - 0
Urgency: No State Mandated Local Program:
No Reimbursable:
SUMMARY
This bill requires a state agency promulgating regulations to
include within the notice of proposed action a specified
statement regarding the availability of narrative descriptions
for persons with visual or other specified disabilities.
FISCAL EFFECT
Costs associated with this legislation should be minor and
absorbable within existing resources.
COMMENTS
Purpose . This legislation serves as clean-up to last year's AB
410 (Swanson) Chapter 495, Statutes of 2011. That bill required
certain state agencies to provide a narrative description of
proposed regulations to persons with visual disabilities upon
request, and to provide the requester with an extended public
comment period. In addition, the bill also required those
designated agencies to include in their notice of proposed
actions a statement regarding the availability of the new
narrative descriptions. Although the governor signed AB 410,
the notice provision was unintentionally chaptered out by
another bill. AB 2041 simply adds that provision back into law,
as was the intent of the original bill.
Analysis Prepared by : Julie Salley-Gray / APPR. / (916)
319-2081
AB 2041
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